Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Police would don riot gear and “absolutely” use force on protesters in Wisconsin, according to a state law enforcement representative, further stoking fears that the ongoing union demonstrations against a plan by Governor Scott Walker to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees could end in violence. Despite the fact that the Wisconsin Law... 

The Supreme Court has said Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz’s lawsuit was preempted under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The law grants drug companies immunity from certain lawsuits from injuries or deaths tied to vaccinations. A federal law grants drug companies immunity from certain lawsuits from injuries or deaths tied to vaccines, the US Supreme Court affirmed Tuesday. The family... 

An injured protestor stretchered into a Benghazi hospital. The number of people killed in three days of protests in Libya has risen to 84, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. The main focus of the demonstrations against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule has been the second city Benghazi, where security forces are said to have attacked protesters again on Saturday. On Friday,... 

Rabbi Dov Lior. New bill seeks to absolve rabbis of criminal responsibility, make them immune to legal action. Knesset members from Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism and National Union submitted a bill that would grant immunity to rabbis against criminal indictment. The proposal, known as the “Rabbi Dov Lior bill,” was formulated in the wake of a probe launched against rabbi Lior on suspicions... 

Bahraini anti-government demonstrators run during clashes between protesters and the Bahraini army during a demonstration in Manama, Bahrain. Soldiers opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming toward the landmark square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders. Officials at the main Salmaniya... 

President Obama warned of stopped Social Security checks and issued a formal veto threat Tuesday to the Republican spending plan currently being debated in the House, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown next month. Democrats in the last congress did not pass a budget at all, so the government has run on a series of stopgap spending extensions since October. The current one expires... 

Julian Assange’s chances of being given a fair trail if he is extradited to Sweden on sexual allegations has been further damaged by a “toxic” attack on him by the Swedish Prime Minister, a court heard yesterday. The WikiLeaks founder’s defence team have claimed that comments made by Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday have made Mr Assange “public enemy number one” in... 

Charlotte Cassez, mother of Florence Cassez, sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison for kidnapping, gives a press conference in Lille, northern France. A Mexican court on February 10, upheld the conviction of a French woman who is serving a 60-year prison term for kidnapping. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico deteriorated into a crisis Friday, after a Mexican court upheld a 60-year... 

Russian diplomats are reporting in the Kremlin today that the “shockwave” of the new doctrine enunciated by President Obama for the United States has reverberated throughout the corridors of power in both the West and East and now threatens the Old Order established in the aftermath of World War II, but to what ends can still not be determined. To fully understand the new Obama Doctrine it is... 

Algerian protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Algiers. Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations. Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers... 

A protest against deportation of migrant workers' children. Israeli policy requires that these women leave the country within three months after giving birth or, alternatively, send their children abroad if they wish to retain their work visa. A report by the United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has for the first time included criticism of Israel’s... 

An injured Ivorian lies on the ground outside the UN building in Abidjan on December 20. At least 296 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations mission in the crisis-hit west African nation has said. At least 296 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations... 

Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event. Commissioners voted last week to require television and radio stations, cable systems and satellite TV providers to participate in a test... 

Hassan Saad with his girlfriend Sara Elmi. A woman from Borås in western Sweden has filed a discrimination complaint against a health clinic after she was told to go back to Africa and get help from a medicine man for pain in her legs. Sara Elmi visited the Viskafors health clinic last summer for advice for how to deal with the pain caused by a serious leg infection, Sveriges Radio (SR) reported. As... 

A federal jury on Monday convicted a former research scientist of stealing trade secrets from Dow Chemical Co. A federal jury on Monday convicted a former research scientist of stealing trade secrets from Dow Chemical Co and selling them to companies in China, US prosecutors said. Wen Chyu Liu, a 74-year-old Chinese-American, former Dow employee, allegedly travelled throughout China to market proprietary...